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4 NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1856. i SEES OP 9) ee eT ee eee eee eee ee ener ee ee ee ee ee ee tyes sid nM Oe a pn nt eg NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNE??®, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. OFFICE H.W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU BTE. FRE Daily HERALD, 2 conte per copy, $7 per annen. THE WEEKLY HERALD, eoory |, at 624 cents per ware Great Britain, or $5 to meet ae Eontin nd, bth "JOB PRINTING caccuted: with neainess, cheapness ard dea- VER TISEMENTS renewed every day. Volume XX1 .Ne. 100 ANUSEMEXTS THIS EVENLNG, BROADWAY THRAYRE, Broadway—Loan or a Loven ~PMANOR AND AzEMAS. WIBLO’? GARDEN, Broadway—Jocko— ne 1! HERMAN’S FREEN MONSTER. BOWKRY THEATRE, Bowery—Srxteen Sraive Jack—P. P.,08 rue MAN AND THE TIGRE—QUEEN OF THE ABRUZZI. BURTON'S THEATRE, Chambers street. Wister’s Tare— ‘Puat Biesery Basy. WALLAUK’S THEATRE, Broadway-Lowpon AssuRANce Lean or 4 Loven. LAURA KRENK’S VARIRTIRS, Broaaway-Tus King’s Bwar Noveurr. BROADWAY VARIETI€S, 472 Broadway—BSisex Sree Beees—WANDeHING MINSTREL -BY THM JOVERILY COMEDLARS., ‘WOOD'S MINSTRELS, 444 Broadway—Erworun Pus- vommances— barry MAN. THEY ZUM. 654 Broadway—Minernc ScxirroRaL, Hos PORICAL, GROGRAPHICAL, OWaTORICAL EXHIBITION, WHPIBE HALL, 596 Broatway—Tovn or Busors-Smce ae Benastoron. Rew York, Thursday, April 10, 1856. Phe Sews. The steamer Cambria, from Liverpool, had not veached Halifax last evening. She is now in her twelfth day out. According to previous understanding, the session ef the Legislature should have expired yesterday; the Senate, however, agreed upop an extension. Early in the forenoon thirty-nine members of the Assembly addressed a letter to the Governor, recom- mending an extra session of twenty days duration. The Governor promptly refused to accede to the proposition. The determination to force an extra session soon became evident. Every species of le. gislative chicanery was resorted to to carry the point. All the important measures—more espe- sially the appropriation and supply bills—were passed over. Resolutions to extend the session were defeated. Contusion, excitement and uproar pre- vailed, and finally the House was declared adjourned sine die. None of the really important bills have been acted on—the Police bill, the various liquor bills, the apportionment bill, the supply and ay] prepriation bills—carrying with them the bread and butter of a host of employes of the State, and the donations to the various charitable and other public institutions, including the much needed relief for the Commissioners of Emigration—are among the un- finished business, and will be used to coerce the Governor into issuing his proclamation for an extra session; and this he is expected to do immediately. There seems to be no help for it, and the infliction must be borne with patience. Another day wasted by Congress yesterday. The Senate passed several bills recommended by the Court of Claims, and then took up the question of printing the memorial of the Kansas free State Leg- islature, which was discussed till the adjournment. In the House, Mr. Shorter, of Alabama, delivereda speech on the slavery questicn. In the Board of Aldermen last evening the Spe- eial Committee on the Location of the Post Office reported in favor of the improvements specified by Postmaster J. V. Fowler in his communication, the general result of which will be the location of boxes under the United States mail lock for the reception of letters, and the privilege of purchasing stamps, so that these conveniences will be within 1,200 feet of the house of every man residing in the paved part of the city, and also four deliveries of mail and city Jetters each week day, from the Battery to Fifty- fourth street—as embracing all that could for the present be reasonably asked—and they hope that the Postmaster will take care that the system is faithfully carried out, and its benefits fully realized by the public. The report is somewhat lengthy, and the “ majority com- mittee” comment in sarcastic terms on the Mayor's communication on the subject. The Board, in highly complimentary terms, concurred to appro- priate $1,000 to Mr. Valentine, their clerk, for his labor in compiling the Corporation Manual for 1856. The proceedings of the Board of Councilman last evening, a report of which we publish elsewhe e, will be found very interesting. They relate mainly to the deplorable condition of the streets, and the negligence of the authorities in not keeping them clean. The communication from Street Commis- sioner Ebling, relative to the Baird contract for cleaning Broadway, and detailing his exertions towards keeping that thoroughfare in order, isa document well worth reading. The Board con- curred with the Aldermen in the removal of the emigrant depot at Castle Garden. The Commissioners of Emigration met yesterday, but did nothing of importance. The debtors of the institution are becoming clamorous, and inless the Legislature pass a bill for their relief the machinery must come to a dead stop. 10,603 emigrants arrived this year upto the ‘th inst., being 5,615 leas than the number that arrived to same date last Ts There are 1851 persons in the institutions to 3,311 at same time of last year. The overdraft in bank is 997,816 28. The democrats of Albany have elected their Com- mon Council, Recorder, Assessors, Justices and Sa- perintendents. The contest for Mayor between the democrats and Know Nothing candidates is very close, and its result cannot be satisfactorily ascer- tained before the official canvass takes place. The nigger worshippers were badly beaten. There is every indication that the North river wil! ‘be open to Albany in a day or two, and navigation will be formally resumed. The following table speaks for itself:— Days clo Dec, 10, 1845... 24 1860 is61 «March 19 -Mareh 18 24 -Mareh 8 April Mare! Captain Link, of the bark Montez rara 22d ult., reports that the difficul blacks and the government, growing out of the “Angel Gabriel” riots, had been quelled. A govera- ment commission was investigating the amount of losses sustained by individuals during the disturb: ances, with a view of compensating the sufferers. A memorial from the Presbytery of Demarara and Essequebo, praying the Court to alter the Educa- tional Ordinance, was read and taken for notifica- tion. A proposal had been made to the town au- thorities by Mr. W. H. Allen, on behalf of a com pany at New York, to introduce water into the towa from the Lahama, or some other source, by means of pipes made of Roman cement covered with iron, The sales of cotton yesterday included about 2,500 bales, based upon middling uplands at 10). Accounts from Southern ports speak of firm markets and free sales. Flour continued heavy, without ma- terial change in quotations. Prime wheat was firm and wanted for milling; choice Canadian white gold at $1 98; good Southern white at $1 85 a $) 874, apd fair Tennessee red at $170. Corn—For coung ranged from ¢lc. a 65¢.; no prime white was report- ed. Rye sold at 98c., delivered. Pork was heavy and easier; mess sold at $16 25 a $16 37}, and prime at $15 37} a $15 50. Bacon on the spot was scarce and firm; 1,000 boxes short middles ribin, sold, for May delivery, at private terms. Sugars were active, with sales of 1,500 boxes, generally at fall prices About 1,000 bage Rio coffee sold at 10jc. a 12jc. reights were rather inactive. To Liverpool com- pressed cotton was taken at 3-l6d. and grain in bulk at 6d. A vessel of 450 tons was engaged to load with cotton for Naples at jc. Central American Affairs—Blunders of the Administration. We call attention to the special telegraphic despatch elsewhere on the subject of Central American affairs. As we anticipated, the coarse of the government towards the Nicaragua movement is ripening into an ardent family quarrel. The Marcy-Pierce administration has finally been brought to account for its conduct, wholly unprecedented in our history, in refusing to recognise the de facto government of President Rivas. The ground taken was that the latter functionary gained power throngh the aid of citizens of the United States. That wasa point which, perhaps, might be made on the final question of receiving the government de jure into the family of nations; but it was a fatal error to apply it to an existing govern- ment, because there was no other in Nicaragua. Policy and necessity required that there should be exercised then—at ail events for the time being—the powers of public administration. The character of that administration, its po- litical tenures, its power to defend itself, whe- ther it was the majority choice of the people, or by whom it was maintained, were questions belonging exclusively to the inhabitants of that country. General Pierce thought other- wise. It was natural, perhaps, regarding his own success and position in the United States, that he should undertake to decide for the peo- ple of Nicaragua. General Walker was 9 fili- buster, and he had contracted a mortal hatred for that class of men. Meantime, it is believed that the Rivas administration enjoys to a far greater degree the confidence of the people of Nicaragua, than does General Pierce of the sanctions of public sentiment in the United States. The facts disclosed by our special corres- pondent are extremely significant. The ad- ministration is condemned by all the leading men of the country. It has called in the ser- vices, it would seem, of Judge Hise, of Ken- tucky, to aid in removing the obstacles to the recognition of the Walker government. Judge Hise is a man of ability and liberality, and will not undertake to negotiate Gen. Pierce out of his difficulties without possessing fall and exclu sive power promptly to recognise the Rivas government. Even Mr. Mason, Chairman of Foreign Affairs in the Senate—a conservative of the stiffest and steadiest kind—is believed to entertain feelings utterly hostile to the Marcy policy. The seizure of the Transit Company’s steam- er Northern Light, in this city, is regarded as an act of filibastering, there being no color of authority in the President to detain that vessel. The alleged ground assumed by Mr, McKeon was, that she contained armed men, intended to operate against a goverament at peace with the United States. Now, there was no other government in Nicaragua except that presided over by President Rivas ; and if there was any military force on the Northern Light, t was intended to aid, and not to oppose, tha’ government. Such was the avowed purpose of many of the passengers, and it was legal and right. The government of the United States was the disorderly party. These views will soon find expression in the Senate. The general policy, aside from mere legal questions involved in this whole series of b)nn- ders of the Marcy-Pierce rule, would seem to point to the encouragement, by every proper means, of the movement in Nicaragua. It isa mode of foreclosing the Central Ameri*.n controversy with England. It assuresstal | y of government over the Transit route. It jo mises vastly increased growth in sugar, cotlee and other tropical products. It binds Califor- nia to the policy of the American Union. It stations a power to the southward of Mexico, and opens to that dissolving republic a means of renovation. It isan expression of Ameri- can enterprise, precisely at the right point- indicative of the future of the whole of the North and Central American States. It raises up a rival of Cuba, where labor in freedom will be found vastly superior to that which is bound in the iron clamps of a military des potiem. In short, the Nicaragua movement is wholly Anglo-American in character, ordu:'y in administration, juet in principle, and bx ficial in results; and the eooner the gove: ment rectifies its mistakes the sooner will errors be forgotten. AFFAIRS OF TRAL AMERICA—IMPORTAN? MOVEMENTS OF Excuish ann Frencu Freers.—Our advices from Hayti bring the important intelligence that on the Sth ultimo four English and two French men-of-war, la‘e- ly composing part of the Baltic fleet. arrived in the roadstead of Port au Prince. 1) is aad- ed that other vessels were expected, «.i that from twelve to fourteen thousaud !reoch troops had been desembarked at Gusa. up> As English veesela would hardly be emp.oyed in the enforcement of French claims agaiast Hayti, we are led to ask what aro the objects and destination of this formidable expeu..tion? An armed intervention in the affairs of Ceu- tral America could not certainly be determ .- ed upon, without some notice of it having been given to our government As no cuafmunica- tion has as yet been received by the department on ihe subject, itis to be presumed taat such is not the immediate object of the assemblage of this large force, W then, is its purpose We must leave it to Seer etary Marcy to solve the question. Tue Stave Driver’s Ono The Buffalo Eryrese (® Seward Niccer Worsuirrixe tram- peter) is pleased to call the Naw York Heratp the slave driver’s organ. This is cruel, and yet as iar as the charge relates to the driving of Seward and hia seditious gang of mouthing conspirators and silly slaves out of the coun- cilsof the government, local and national, we plead guilty. Anything more? Waar’s ix THe Wixp Now ’—Head up, and with the rush of Zouave, in his windy, wide flowing trowsers, comes the Washington Union of Tuesday to the defence of Mr. Buchanan. Things do work round in most extraordina- ry way. Is the Pennsylvanian satisfied with this amendment in the neutrality of the ad- ministration’ Prospect, we fear, of a dry sea- fon. AbveERtISING.—-Brevity, which is the soul of wit, is also a great merit in advertisements. It is astonishing how many things can be said in afew words, if an effort is only made to con- dense; and as advertisements in all journals of Jarge circulation are paid for by the line, con- densation is economy. It is more than this. It adds clearness and point, and conspicuity. An advertisement which is diffuse and wordy has far less chance of being read than one which contains its pith in two or three lines containing a couple of pointed terse sentences. In this respect, advertisers have much to learn. It we were to print all advertisements as they are sent to us, there would be room for nothing else in the paper; and though our receipts would be larger, the aim of the adver- tiser—publicity—would be less surely gained than at present. Advertisers should write on fixed principles. A man has a thing to sell, say ahoree. Ten to one, if he is left to the guidance of his own inspiration, he will write ten lines of epithets and flourishes about his horse, not one word of which anybody will be- lieve. He may also, if given to words, say something complimentary about himself, as for instance, that he warrants this horee “oa his word and honor,” &. For all this he pays the publisher so much per line, and dow bot impress the public nearly as favorably as he would if ne was more economical of space. Advertisers should state first plainly, in the most matter of fact form, without adjectives or flourishes, what the subject matter of their advertisement is—whether a house to sell or let, a horse to sell, a cook’s place wanted, or acargo of coal to sell, and so on; then, if necessary, the price asked, or intended to pay; then the accessories affecting the value of the article, which should be given plainly and briefly, as that the house has four stories, the horse is three years old, the cook is expe rienced, the coal is bituminous; and lastly, the place where these things are to be found. Notbing more is needed. Advertisements of four lines cost halt as much and are read twice as often as advertise: menis of eight, Let advertisers take the hint, Tue Porice Bit—If the infamous attempt which is now being made at Albany to place the police under the control of commissioners is carried into effect, it will be high time for every man to carry a revolver in his pocket, and for every house to be guarded by a spring gun. The object of the biNisto make the police a regular political force. It is to be under the control of six politicians—who will bleed the city to the tune of $20,000 e year— and who will wield it for their own purposes at elections. Policemen appointed under such @ bill as this would be independent of every one—of the Mayor, of the magistrates, of the press, of public opinion. They would do noth- ing but serve the purpose of their party, and would become a greater curse to the city tha the locusts were to Egypt. Read the remoo strance of a number of gentlemen, addressed to the Legislature, and published in another co. lumn. The signers represent over fitty mil- lions of the wealth of the metropolis. Bat apart from this, every one who visits the city, every man and women, every mother, wife, child, are deeply interested in preserving the police as itis. Itisas important to the stranger from the rural districts as to our own citizens that the present system should not be changed. Read the remonstance. Fovrrer’s Birrapay—Private Love Feast or THE Free Lovers.—We publish this mora- ing a report of the proceedings at a private celebration,y our leading Fourierite social- ists, of the birthday of the wonderful Charles Fourier. This delectable affair came off the other evening at the hospitable residence of that active apostle of socialism, Mr. Albert Brisbane. There were some choice spirits among them, including Mr. Stephen Pearl An- drews, the presiding elder of the late free love establishment on Broadway; and the marvel- lous Andrew Jackson Davis, who can call up the spirit of a well digger from the bottom of & well that has caved in over his dead body; there were also present many other astonishing philosophers and visionary reformers of both sexee. And they had a good time; and they are looking forward with unquestionable faith to the better time comiag, when “the lion and the larab shall lie down together;” when labor will be uttractive or dispensed with altog2- ther; when there will be no more political or social distinctions between sexes and colcrs; when the drawbacks of all existing marriage institutions shall be done away with, and when there sball be an equal division of the returns of labor, capital and property among ait hands every Seturday night. To be sure all the late socialistie and free love phalanxes and aseociations of these charming reformers, dreamers, fanatics and infidels have failed; but they are as full of hope as the worshippers of Tom Paine or JoSmith. Read the repor! of their late love feast in another column, and then deny, if you can, that the world does move. Tur Two Tur Prixcrrte.-The Hon. Mr. Keitt, of South Carolina, advocates the re- nomination of Mr. Pierce on the ground, among others, that a new division of the spoils thould not enter into the democratic estimates of the campaign. Very well. Let the admi- nietration follow the example of Mr. Tyler, that is to say, let it call together an indepen- dent nominating convention of office holders, and the thing can be done without difficulty. At Cincinnati the great danger is that the outsiders will make a new divide a sin qua non. Think of the tremendous magnanimity required to allow the same set to fatten upon the spoils of seventy-five miHions « year for eight consecutive years, with five hundred thousand democrats, old and new, who have been waiting for aeop from four to twenty years! The two term idea is the cheese for the ins. but the one term doctrine is the out- side dispensation. Will Mr. Keitt be seated ? Here Tuzy Go anv Tuere Tuty Go.--While the American party of Kentucky are working away like beavers for Fillmore and Donelson, the same party across the river in Indiana, have called te convention for the first of May, upon the platform of the restoration of the Missouri line, or the rejection of Kansas, sbould she apply for admission as a slave State. ' In union there is strength. Tur Turek Drorees--Beautiful, the wea- ther—more beautiful, our New York spring business--most beautiful, Broadway, west side, at four in the afternoon. A Litre too Mucn.--The new American or- an at Albany is quoting W. H. Seward in be- Galt of Mr. Fillmore. Stop him. Kansas.—It strikes us that Kansas’ wrongs have been wept over long enough. We should be sorry to say anything thet would hurt the feelings of our fellow countrymen in that far off Territory; but we affectionately wara them that they are running great risk of becoming abore. We hope they will arrive in the ead at a happy iegue out of all their troubles, and that they will not forget, in the excitement of politics, to sow their fields, clear the woode, and build solid houses with stout broad chim- neys; and we also trust that as their mental energy developes, they will cultivate letters, and send us good newspapers, with the whole story of their shocking squabbles printed ia fine large type, on good paper, to the end that we may be entertained, and aseured that the Anglo-Saxon race is preserving ita growling and pugnacious propensities, even in the Fur West. Bat till that happy day comes, it ap- pears that Kansas has no right to claim so much of our attention as she now usarps. From all that can be learnt, the two parties are fighting it out in the neighborhood of Law- rence very satisfactorily, and from the noise they make it isto be presumed that they will settle their dispute before long one way or the other. Several little girls and one or two little boys were very much alarmed some time since, by the intelligence that the naughty people in Kansas had got cannon and pistols, and were going to do mischief with them; bat the pa- rents of these children have no doubt satisfied them by this time that there was too much barking in Kansas for much biting. Politi- cians, too, have made a good thing out of Kan- eas; and not a few of them have had greatness thrust upon them on its account. So now let us rest—let Kansas manage its own affairs, and let us mind oura. A Frmry Ensign—Srven Vorcanogs--No Cuance ror Marcy.—The new flag of Nicara- gus consists of three stripes, two of sky blue, with a white stripe in the centre, andin the midst of the white is a circular device of the teal of State, and the representation of seven volcanoes, in token of the volcanic range of Nicaragua. Seven volcanoes! Yet Marcy af- fects to turn up his nose at Gen. Walker with all these engines of combustion at his back! Seven volcanoes! The full astrological and mythical number of seven. There were the seven wonders of the world, the seven golden candlesticks, the seven churches of Asia, the seven Pleiades, the seven wise men of Greece, &c.; and there are the seven days of the week, the seven sacraments, the seven bells on ship board, and many other things typical of a mystericus power in that mystical number, se- yen; what, then, must be the power of Walk- er, with seven volcanoes at his back? Let Marcy consider these things, and submit to manifest d: \iny. Seven volcanoes! What a country would Nicaragua be for Professor Meriam and his theory of earthquakes, Srrxcu or W. H. Sewarp.— We have received a copy of the speech in the United States Se- nate of W. H. Seward, “for the immediate admission of Kansas into the Union,” but we have no room for it. The acts and facts and testimony which he recites so copiously in his history of Kansas, have been so often repeated as to be now like “a thrice told tale in the ears of a drowsy man.” Nor is it necessary to re- peat his elaborate logic to give our readers an understanding of his line of argument. He thinks that Kansas shoyld be admitted at once asa free State upon the application of the Lane and Robinson party—that slavery has no business in the Territory, anyhow, and that it will only damage the South to continue the struggle there for the ascendency—for that even should they secure Kansas as a slave State, it will only make the matter worse for them, because the intensified abolition agita- tion of the North would drive them to seces- sion. In behalf of the Union, therefore, and to restore quiet to Kansas and the North aad the South, Mr. Seward appeals for the imme- diate admission of Kangas as a free State Such is the substance of the seven or eight columns of Mr. Seward’s enormous speech. W have no room for it, and were we to mai+ room for it we fear that our readers would have neither the time nor the patience to read it, We are constrained to let it pass. Wuicu Is 17 ?--The American party did won- ders yesterday in the election at Albany, that bridge bill and all other things considered; bu! to whom do the honors belong? To Millard Fillmore or “Live Oak George Law?” The Re gister, we know, did some service; but Scovili: is for Live Oak George; the Statesman made the contest a matter of lite and death; but that organ plays for Fillmore. Assort the tickets, gentlemen—assort the tickets. Vorr Eariy.—All over the country, where any elections are on hand, we see that the news- Papers are calling upon the people to vote early. Good advice, for if followed up, we shall coon get all these little petty jobs off our hands, and have a clear field tor the solid busi- nees of the grand campaign. Vote early. Exemnition oF FLowsrs.—Yesterday was a very nise time for the New York Horticultural Society to open its quarterly exhibition. The weather could not have been finer, and, although Broadway was a littie dusty, the trottoir was filled from early morn to dewy eve with gaily dressed loungers. The Society's room jin Clinton Hall, Aster piace, was open during the afternoon and +v niag. ‘The exhibi.ion comprised choice plants in pots and a tew cut flowers. The show is small but very creditable. One contributor, Mr. J. N. Hauser, sends nine varieties of roses—the best collection—and some cut pansies snd carnations. Mr. Hogg sends some rare plants ani ssw9 petunias and azaleas. Cranstoun, of Hoboken, bya cinths, aaleas, &6.; also some fine seedling oeneraria, worthy of notice. Mr. Liddock shows four dielytro spec- tabilis and the heviotrope, called the beauty of the bo.- dotr. Dr. Knight sends some ferns from Central America, also the oncidium fiexuosium, very“rare. Isaac Buchanan sends a variety of house plants, very superior. ‘The exbibition closed last evening. fi The Population and Wealth of Minnesota. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. In an interesting editorial in your paper this morning on the relative wialth and population of the various States and Territories of this couatry, you give to Minne- tote only 48,000 inbabitants, and place its property at $9,000,000, In this you are mistaken, Gov. Gorman, in his recent mesrage, stated officially that the ferritory contained 76,000 inhabitants, and that this information was derived from sources he knew to be correct. Fight months ago the census takers made a return of over 50,000, and since then there has been @ rapid increase. Insvead of putting down the amount of property in Minnesota at $2,000,000, it should be at Jeast $8,000,000, in St. Paal alone, [ doubt not, there is upwards of $3,000,000 of pro. perty. I make this correction, believing that you preier the truth, whem you can get it, to random guessing, Respectfully yours, ‘3. M. NEWSON, NEW YORK, April 9, 1868, Imprionment of Dirty ‘Tenants, TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. Please allow me space to say that the absurd Proposition y imy tenants for not keeping clean was not me, ‘but was tbe s° of one of the members of the ve ‘Committee ; all that ewners of property desire, when a tenant does not keep his contract to keep bia premises clean, is that he ‘be made to give them ap 1 the power to subject the lors to byt Rc i) a re wh Lid given _ currency to euch @ siaemen: correct it, GBARLES J. FOLSOM, No, Wi iow ree. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, Highly Interesting from W: OUR RELATIONS WITH ‘CENTRAL AMERICA—THE F)RE IN GEN. GADSDRN’S REAR—GADSDEN AND THE THREE MILLIONS INSTALMENT—MR. BUCHANAN A} D TBE KANSAS QUESTION, BTC., ETC. Wasmxcton, April 9, 1856. The Senate having called for additional information on Kanese affairs, and the House for farther intelligence on the Centra! American question, the President to-day ssat toeach a messege saying there is nothiog new in the State Department regarding these subjects. ‘The Central American imbroglio has assumed an inte- resting thape. The course of tre administration in the rejection of Col. French is almost universally condemned: ‘at, Because in that proceeding the administration as- sumed to be the judge of the people of Nicaragua, avd, as far as it had the power, to dicta‘e to them what govern- ment they should have. That the unifurm prastice of the United States has been to recognise de facto govern- ments, and in doing so they take no responsibility for the character and aims of the same. They have so acted in Mexico, in France, in Spain—every where. 24. The refusal to recoguise the Rivas-Walkor rule, be- cause they despatched an envoy who happened to be a native of the United Siates, is s strange commentary on the appointment of Soulé to Spain, Robert Dale Owen to Naples, and Auguste Belmont to the Hague. 84, The seizure of the Nisaragua steamer in your port because of an alleged violation of tne neutrality laws, alleging {bat it was bearing armed men against a power with which we were at peace, was an ezregious blun‘er, in this, that if true, they were not intended to operate against Nicaragua, but in behalf of that government. ‘This last act was that of the President, and was so clearly illegal as to subject the Marshal to damages. Such is the opinion of leading Senators and members of Congrers. How to get rid of these difficulties without impeaching the government of » great blunder is the question with the Cabinet, To invite the Rivas-Walker government to send ® Minister would be an acknowledgment of the blunder. The President, he other day, rent for Judge Hise, of Kentucky, and offered him a special mission He de- chned it, except on condition of the recall of the present resident Ministers in Central America—including 21. Wheeler—and an unconditional power to resogniz» the Walker government. Marcy holds back, and says it is better to wait and let Walker send a Minister here; but that he will not do until invited by the present adminis- tration, ‘The report that the English and French fleets contem- plate lancing men to aia Costa Rica is made without the slightest authority. The government will lose no time in recognising the Walker government, when it can do so and save itself from an expcsure of its past errors. The effort to procure ald for the Transit Company is an utter failure; no such intervention has been seriously thought of. Private letters received in this city from Gea. Gadsden indicate an ill feeling between him and his government. He charges that private individuals have the ear of Mr. Marcy instead of the Minister; that certain merchants in Mexico, who are in favor with the government he feat all bis attempts to secure indemnity to our citizeas for injuries done them. The letter published in one of the Charleston papers, from Mexico, in relation to the payment of the three milheon instalment, is charged on Gen. Gadsien, our Minister; and I am informed to-day that unless he clears his skirts from its authorship, he wil: be recalled. The administration have for some time wanted a pretext for recalling him. The war upon Buchanan is fierce and relentless. Marcy and Pierce are rabid sgainst him, rexarding him ‘as an interloper, ‘‘hogely ungrateful.” The report that the unpublished portiun of Mr. Bu- chanan’s letter to Mr. Slidell contained language to the effect that if he (Mr. Buchanan) had been in Congress he would have voted sgainst the repeal of the Missouri restriet'on, is a stock-jobbing fabrication; and I am authorized by Senator Slidell to say so. Governor Wise informed a gentleman who dined with him yesterday that Virginia was certain to cast her vote for Mr. Buehanan in thé Cincinnati Convention. The main point of Senator Geyer’s speech, it will be seen, is made in sustaining the Cass doctrine of popular sovereignty, ard denying the power of Congress over the Territories. ‘The Connecticut election is another nail in the Pierce coffin, another intimation to the South, and one more than was required to set the Brigadier aside. Governor Broome, of Florida, has arrived in Washing- ton, the object of his visit being to consult the execa- tive authorities regarding the protection of the frontiers of that State. In April, 1852, a man named Wells was convicted of murder in thiscity and sentenced to be hanged. He was pardoned by President Fillmore, with the condition that he be imprisoned for life. A year ago an application was made to the Circuit Court for his discharge under a writ ot habeas corpur, the prisoner’s counsel, Charles L. Jonen, Esq., assuming the broad ground that the pardon was absolute and the condition void. The Court refused the application and remanded Wells to the peniventi. ary. The case came before the Supreme Court on sppeal. Justice Catron delivered an opinion this morning, sustaining the inferior court, and rayiag the condition of the pardon was not the exercise of a new power, but merely the eubstitution of one punishment for another, and arguing that the pardoning power must ‘be understood as it existed in England and in thase colunies prior to the formation of the constitution. Justice tis and Campbell coneurring, were understood as assum- ing that waits of error in criminal eases not being per- missable to the Supreme Court, {t has no jurisdiction in the premises, and, therefore, the case should be dis- missed, Justice McLean dissenting, argued that the ex- ample of Ergland in matters ot prerogative, was not ap- plicable to this country, the Executive being confined to positive law—in the absence of which, in this case, the conditional pardon was not sustainable. It was the oxer- cise of a new power. ‘are Magara County Town Elections, Lockport, April 9, 1858, ‘The town meetings in this oeunty were held yesterday, and resulted in the election of 4 Board of Supervisors composed of five Americans, four republicans, two demo- crats and one independent, The Americans have a small majority of the popular vote. St. Louls Municipal Election. St. Louis, April 8, 1856, The mpjority of Mr. Howe, democratic candidate for Mayor, is 2,569, which is about the average majority of the entire democratic ticket. The Common Council will be composed of thirty-two democrats and eight Amari- cans. Kansas Affairs, GOVERNOR ROBINSON IN BOSTON. Bostox, April 9, 1956, Governor Robinson, of Kansas, just previous to hia departure from this city, yesterday, met # number of gen- tlemen, members of the Legislature and others, at the rooms of the Emigrant Aid Society. He expressed very decidedly tne opinion that the safety of Kansas as a free State depends upon defeating Mr. Douglas’ bill for a now constitutional convention, as, under the present adminis. tration and its pogus laws, there would be no chance of securing » fair election. Mr, Atchison, who, he said, ia President, as far as Kansas is ooncsrned, is reported to have three million of dollars at his command to force slavery into Kansas. THE CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATING COMMITTAR. (icaGo, April 8, 1856, Messrs. Howard and Sherman, of the Kansas Investi- gating Committee, passed through Chicago yesterday. TRANSPORTATION TO KANSAS. St. Louis, April 9, 1956, A committee {rom Kansas is in this city, aelegated by a number of the business men of that Territory, to take steps for the establishment of a line of steamers from Al- ton, Ill, to Kansas, for the transportation of Northern emigrants and merchandise. The committee will proceed to Chicago, Cincinnati and Pittsburg for the purpose of pertecting the arrangements. Markets, PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD, PHLaDELrnra, Apfil 9, 1456, Stocks steady. Pennsylvania Fives, 64; Treating Ral- road, 4634; Long Island, 16; Morris Canal, 143¢; Peansy!. vania Railroad, 4654. New Ontxase, April 8, 1866, Catton has ndvanced slighty on the fair and mi ualit quotations ranging from 930. 09%. {. ‘Midaling. ‘Salen to-dar, 11,000 Dalen, "Floce dul with s otist tendency. Ohio is quoted at $675. Moss k, $16 50. Freights of cotton to Liverpool, 7:164,; to ljavre, hdliae, kaw cdvoneea Caantarton, April 8, 1856. advan TOM jee. @ 146, Sates wo-di 3,000 bales. "| re fHIRTY-FOURTA CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION. Senate. Wasnincron, April 9, 1866. BILLS OF THE COURT OF CLAIMS PASSED, A number of bills from the Court of Claims making ap- propriations for certain claims were passed. KANSAS AFFAIRS, ‘The question of printing the memorial of the Kansa® Legislature, presented by Mr. Cass, was taken up. Mr. BurLEr, (dem.) of 8. C., opposed the motion om the ground that the memorial being arrogant in its language, it would be violative of tae rules of the Senate to 6 at. He had no objection to Kansas coming into the Union 8 a free or tlave Siate, but he wanted it to enter honest- ly, through the gate, and not ciimb over the wall, or creep under it. Mr. Mason, (dem.) of Va., thought the memorial ought. not to have been received; be now m ved that it be laid upon the table. Mr. Szwarp, (nigger worshipper) of N. Y., said he de- sired te be heard on the question. ‘The subject was portponed, and the spesial order re- sumed, the right of the floor belonging to Mr. SewaRD, ‘who addressed the Senate at length on tha euojesc. Mr. Cray, (dem ) of Ala, obtained the floor, and the Senate acjourned, House of Representatives. Wasuixatox, April 9, 1856. ‘The Deficiency Appropriation bill was taken up. Mr. SuorTsR, (dem.) of Ala., oontended that Masea- ehussets, by her conduct relative to the Fagitive Slave Jaw, has placed herself outside of the pale of the constitu- tion and ought not to bg represented here, He said that the South had been victimized every time she had com- promised with the North. He hoped, therefore, that no further attempt of that kind would te made. He said not only Alabams, but every Southern State, is resolved that, should the government fail to protect them in their constitutional rights, they will take the ly into their own hands. They will stand on the Georgia plat- form. If the demooratic party, which is the trae ex nent of State rights principles, shall triumph im Presidential election, ‘he Union will be saved; but if black republicaniam prevails. the history of our con- federacy will have been written. The only way to pre- serve the Union is for the true conservative men of the North, now represented by the sound national democrats, to unite with the South and wage unseasing war on the fanatics who would tear down the pillars of our Ee ory The Senate’s amendment appropriatiog nearly $60,000: for engraving maps and drawings accompanying the re- ports of the explorations and surveys to determine the route for @ Pacific railroad, wae ¢r:cussed. The question of extravagance wes dilated upon in this connection, one gentleman saying the printing and engraving of thie work will cost one million éollars, while others thought such large outlays would have a tendency to plerts the construction of the road. An ineffectual effort was made to confine the appropriation within proper limits, excluding illustrations fitted on!y to adorm booxs of travel and natural history. The amendment to that effect was rejected, and the House adjourned. The Connecticut Election. Harrrorp, April 9, 1856, We have re‘urns from evary town in the State, but one, for Governor. The whole vote is 66,600—the largest vote ever cast in the State. Ingham, the democratic candidate for Governor, lacks 1,554 of an election by the people. The House stands—Democrats 104, and oppost- tion 127, with one to hear from. The Senate has 9 de- mocrats to 12 opposition. The American State ticket will be elected by the Legislature on joint ballot. The Legislature will be strongly anti-Nebraska, Massachusetts Legislature, dc, Bostoy, April 9, 1856, The Benate Committee om the Prohtbitory law have re- ported that it is inexpedient, in the opinion of the com- mittee, to alter or modi'y the existing law. A minority report will be submitted. The Senate rejected the Ten Hour bill by a large mejority. Mojor Daniel J. Coburn was to-dey appointed Chief of Police, in place of Robert Taylor, removed. Mr. Taylor Jeaves the office with the satisfaction that he has the general respect of the community, Departure of the Steamship Canada. Boston, April 9, 1856. The royal mail steamship Canada sailed at noon to-day with eighty-four passezgers for Liverpool and seven for Halifax. She took out $203,000 in specie. Cyrus W- Field, Eeq., of New York, ig among the passengers for Halifax, whenee he y .¢s to Newfoundland, Louisiana Races. NEw ORLEANS, April 8, 1856. At the race over the Metairie course, yesterday, three mile heats, Minnow was the winning horse, handsomely beating his competitor, Arrow. ‘What Our Correspondents Say. The pressure of advertisements upon our columas stil! compels us to condense everythirg. and we therefore compress a formidable batch of lettera into the following epitome :— A correspondent calls Newcastle, Lawrence eoun'y, Pa., a flourishing towa. It has been brought into notice by being located near the junction of the Erie extension of the Pennsylvania canal with the Ohio and Pennsylva- nia canal. A large town of seven thousand inhabitants has sprung up there as if by magic. The exports of the past season have been 50,000 barrels flour, 100,000 buskels wheat, 650,000 pounds wool, be- sides other products, estimated at 150,000 tons, and valued at $2,500,000. There sre 27 blast farnaces for smelting iron ore, within thirty miles ; 26 flouring mills, withio fifteen miles ; and 6 first class rolling miles, within a short distance—two of ‘which are immediately near the limits of the borough—giving employment to about 700 hands, A mammoth blast farnace has aiso been put in operation recently, with a capacity of 135 tons per week. Two extensive foundries, 2 engine and machine shops ; 34 stores, of various kinds ; 1 oil mill, 1 paper mill, 1 glase manufactory, 1 coach shop, 2 keg manufactories—beeides numerous establishments for the manufacture of ploughs, axes, guns, chains, cabinet ware, marble mantels and monuments, saddlery and harness of all kinds, &., &s. The Bank of Newoastle, capital $200,000, is also located here. Two offices of exchange and deposit, 4 good hotels, 4 weekly newspapers, 11 churches, 4 large schools, (one of which is the large public Union school, with a regalar attendance of from 500 to 600 scholars), 11 minia- ters of the Gospel, 9 physictans, 15 attorneys, 1 Ma. sonic hall, 1 hall for Odd Fellows—besides nu. merous respectable establishments and stores for, the sale of the various manufactures of the place. Newcastle will also have a railway outlet, Fast and West, very soon, and itis m the centre of the coal and iron region of Pennsylvania. It is a flourishieg town, and they take the Heratp. Mr. James P, Abbott, Health Warden of the Thirteenth ward, writes to us iu answer to the letter of Mr. J. Oo- vert, agent for the tenement buildings known as Menhat- tap place. Mr. Abbott says that the Legislative Commit. tee did visit the house on or about the 1éth of March, and were assailed by a horrid effluvia from this St. Giles ot Gotham. Last summer the place was occupied by bone collectors and rag pickers, and some of them live there now. The bone collectors piled their merchandise on the stoops, and such was the stench, that the neigh- bors have implored the Warden to prevent the recar- rence of the offence during the comming summer. Further, that there are many apartments in that build- ing occupied by two families, and one by three, consisting of eleven persons in all. Mr. Abbott finally requests al) persons interested to call and see for themselves, Mr. Elihu Burritt writes to us from New Britain, Con- necticut, in relation to his project fur a line of electrie telegraph between San Francisco and St. Peteraburg, crossing Bebring’s Straits, It is said that Russia hae already six thousand miles in operation. Some of her Mnes, doubtless, are reaching eastward tewards the Urel mountains, At the conclusion of the war, she will be sure to extend them eastward still iato her Asiatic provinces. She will have the best skill that American genius can supply to assist her in these enter- prises; and she will undoubtedly ve ready to meet the United States half the way, and perhaps more than half he way, in connecting New York and St. Petersburg, Mr. Maurice O'Donnell writes to say that his dry goods store, in avenue B, between Twelfth and Thirteenth. treets, has been broken into and robved, and thet he does not think the police have displayed any vigilange or activity in endeavoring to reclaim bis property or ar- rest the thieves, Mr. O’Donnell should appeal to the Mayor, the head of the fores. W. HS, points out to merchants, meshanies and others the advantages—fresh air, low rents, rural ery, ple ty of water, &¢., &e.—to be gained by taking a residence in Rarlem or Yorkyilie. A circular, signed by the rector and wardens of Grate church, Conselyea strest, Williamsburg, that their new edifice will be consecrated this moraing, at 10 o'clock. It is a fiee church. We are infermed ina similar macner that the pupils of St. Matthew's Academy will celebrate their sixth auni- vereary at the Broadway Tabernacle, this evening. The receipts will be given to the “New York Aid Society for Poor German Orphans ’’ orthy object. We have an interesting letter from san Francinco, ridi- culing the ignorance of « portion of the Rastern press in relation to the real condition of the great and rapidiy growing Btate of California, Our correspondent gives a clever pieture of the progress of the State, but it is better “2